This is the fourth in a series of articles analyzing the work of Stephen Sondheim.
Letters feature prominently in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical, PASSION, which is set in 1863 Italy. The letters exchanged between soldier Giorgio and ...
Green Valley High School in Henderson, Nevada Honored for Pursuing Artistic Vision Despite Challenges
When Green Valley High School decided to stage a production of the Jonathan Larson Tony and Pulitzer Award winning musical RENT, the community ...
This is the third of a weekly series analyzing Sondheim musicals. The first and second, on happiness and wealth in SATURDAY NIGHT and the optimistic message of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG can be read here and here.
Musical theatre songs are complicated ...
At the beginning of Frank Loesser's sprawling masterwork, THE MOST HAPPY FELLA, two characters are getting ready to move on. For Joe, traveling is a way of life; he'll stay in one place for a few months, working in the fields, and then quit and go ...
This article in London's The Independent is a thoughtful look at the feminist ideas in LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL, which recently opened in London to rave reviews.
For more information on the London production of LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL, click ...
Sondheim's first major work as a composer/lyricist was SATURDAY NIGHT, a traditional-style musical comedy set in 1929 Brooklyn. Gene, a low-level worker on Wall Street, so longs to be one of the financial elite he sees every day that he regularly ...
On January 9, Los Angeles theatre company East West Players staged a one-night only benefit performance of Tony Award winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown's song cycle, THE LAST FIVE YEARS. Starring 2009 Ovation nominees Michael K. Lee and ...
Long a leader in theatre education, MTI recognizes that students respond best to theatre that is personally relevant. When it became clear that the rapidly growing U.S. population of Spanish-speaking and bilingual students could be better served ...
"He gets up early, drinks a pot of strong coffee, and digs."
That's how Frank Loesser's first wife Lynn described his work habits, and his impressive output certainly reflects that. By his death at age 59, Frank Loesser had written five Broadway ...
The Lynn Ahrens/Stephen Flaherty chamber musical, THE GLORIOUS ONES, is ideal to showcase a strong group of performers whose material ranges from physical comedic gags to poignant ballads. Its small cast size and emphasis on storytelling enables ...
